AWS autoscaling documentation change

Service: autoscaling · 2025-06-13 · Documentation low

File: autoscaling/ec2/userguide/allocation-strategies.md

Summary

Added warning about high interruption risk for 'lowest-price' strategy and noted CLI availability

Security assessment

Focuses on operational guidance for Spot Instances, not security vulnerabilities or features.

Diff

diff --git a/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/allocation-strategies.md b/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/allocation-strategies.md
index 11ba893cb..5929fa245 100644
--- a//autoscaling/ec2/userguide/allocation-strategies.md
+++ b//autoscaling/ec2/userguide/allocation-strategies.md
@@ -49,0 +50,4 @@ You set the order of instance types for the launch template overrides from highe
+###### Warning
+
+We don't recommend the `lowest-price` strategy because it has the highest risk of interruption for your Spot Instances.
+
@@ -52 +56 @@ Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling requests your Spot Instances using the lowest priced poo
-Because this strategy only considers instance price and not capacity availability, it might lead to high interruption rates.
+The `lowest-price` strategy is only available when using the AWS CLI.